[Koopa]

Originally Posted by Canyarion

JHWH.
'Jehova' or 'Jahweh'.

well in effect you're right...but not really

the letters in the torah are yud hay vav hay, or yhvh...and i guess it got americanized into jhwh or jhvh..and i think thats how Jehova's witnesses got their name.

but the word is structured in hebrew without any vowels and in a way such that it indicates no gender. so it could be yah way or yehweeh or anything like that

Re: The Passion of Jesus Christ

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Originally Posted by Joeiss
Koopa, Jesus was looked upon as a criminal, that is why he was put to death. Prisoners were treated very, very poorly in those times, and it was common to "disrespect" them by abusing them. So, the Jews spat on him, who cares? It was what everybody was doing then.

I also believe that a common practice of putting a criminal to death was a public stoning.

Listen, I fear that all people are doing is getting riled up over nothing. The PUBLIC condemned Christ, according to the bible, and the PUBLIC happened to be jewish as there were only 12 Christians in the whole world at that time.

My feeling is that if you are going to get upset over this
movie, and the movie follows the Bible, then you should also get upset over the Bible. Its far easier to condemn a movie rather than a book of faith, now isn't it?

wow i never thought about it that way. i'm just afraid that moviegoers will not take things in context and not see people stoning a criminal, but jews killing jesus.

of course i don't believe in alot of the stuff in christianity, but i really hope i never implied that i wanted to condemn it. my personal belief is that whatever you want to believe that will make you feel spiritually satisfied, and will compell you to behave well on earth, couldn't be bad....as long as you don't hurt others in the process. the threat of this movie turning a story of sacrifice into a problem for jews is what scares me.


also erm...weren't most of the public "pagan" romans?

hey what is the term for the romans' religion anyway? greekism? romanism..? pagan sounds too negative.

I'm going to see it with my World Religions class as a field trip.

BTW... the controversy of this move just shows how easily society's opinions can be changed or how they can be offended over something stupid like a movie. IMO, that's kind of sad. Movies and music have too much control over what people do and think

movies are today's most popular form of entertainment. a hundred yeras ago when books were one of the most popular ways of spreading ideas, books like Uncle Toms Cabin sparked huge controversy, and noone thinks that that book had"too much control over what people do and think." the pamphlet Common Sense made revolutionaries out of many colonists, but noone thinks its sad that they were incited into discussing the issues.